Anna Maria Chávez

CEO

Girl Scouts of the USA

New York, NY USA

“It'll all work out as long as you're doing it for the right reason. It's going to get a little scary. But your only job in life is to stay on that track; regardless of what people throw at you and what barriers they put in your way, no one change your track but you.”

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Law

Non-Profit Organizations

Teaching / Mentoring

Hurdles

Challenges I Overcame

First-Generation College Student

First-Generation College Student

My parents hadn't gone to college so for me it was the first opportunity to really understand what that meant. This was the late 80s, women had only been on Yale campus for 20 years. My freshman year I was one of 16 Mexican American students on campus.